Yet an­oth­er health­care work­er has died from the COVID-19 virus.

Last Tues­day, the virus took the life of 39-year-old Ali­cia Rul­low, a con­tract­ed wards­maid at the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal.

Chair­man of the Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion St Ann’s sec­tion Pre­ston George con­firmed Rul­low’s pass­ing, say­ing she left be­hind a 13-year-old son.

“We are deeply sad­dened by her pass­ing and want to ex­tend con­do­lences to her fam­i­ly. Ali­cia was a ded­i­cat­ed work­er and will be missed tremen­dous­ly,” George said.

George said Rul­low be­gan work­ing as a con­tract­ed work­er at the health in­sti­tu­tion last De­cem­ber.

It is be­lieved that Rul­low con­tract­ed the virus on Ward 19 dur­ing gen­er­al clean­ing.

The hos­pi­tal treat­ed COVID-19 pa­tients on Wards 2, 3 and 19.

George said Rul­low had com­plained to her col­leagues that she was not feel­ing well two days be­fore her death.

“She was very much con­cerned that if she had stayed home it would have re­flect­ed bad­ly on her per­for­mance.”

He said health care work­ers at the hos­pi­tal are now con­cerned for their per­son­al safe­ty.

“They are wor­ried even though hos­pi­tal ad­min­is­tra­tors have im­ple­ment­ed flex­i­ble work­ing hours for staff mem­bers to avoid mass gath­er­ings on the job.”

George al­so dis­closed that oth­er wards­maids, nurs­es and at­ten­dants have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 and had to be quar­an­tined.

Two weeks ago, George said, the hos­pi­tal stopped ad­mit­ting COVID pa­tients.

Last month, prin­ci­pal med­ical of­fi­cer Dr Maryam Ab­dool-Richards con­firmed there was an out­break of the virus at the hos­pi­tal.